Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: What is the fastest way to do 400 HTTP requests using requests library? Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 09:02:52 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <87r3hwarib.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> References: <0e42a90b-b736-4050-a20c-6d387048daf3@googlegroups.com> <568b027c$0$1588$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <568b8eff$0$1588$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7fb8b9b5119ed656382b2cea88166c4f"; logging-data="30466"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Wu0BKwk8+RupAAi7NE2Eo" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cn8Bn6dHJjm9CnlEOvgpXGiJXnM= sha1:8K0iKF30rUZs6Jw/KLQc4Q6f5h4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:101273 Steven D'Aprano writes: > Maybe they're stress-testing a web server, or they just want to download > things in a rush. They're stress-testing a web server through a tor proxy? This sounds abusive to me. I also wonder whether 400 referred to the HTTP 400 error code rather than the number of requests to be sent. As in: - Layer 7 (“400 bad request”) attacks toward our web and application servers, causing Linode Manager outages from http://status.linode.com/incidents/mmdbljlglnfd regarding a big DDOS attack that's been running against Linode.com (a VPS host) over the past couple weeks.